Philo Judaeus, De Vita Contemplativa, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 63

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[63] σιωπῶ τὰ τῶν μύθων πλάσματα καὶ τοὺς δισωμάτους, οἳ κατ’ ἀρχὰς προσφύντες ἀλλήλοις ἑνωτικαῖς δυνάμεσιν αὖθις οἷα μέρη συνεληλυθότα διεζεύχθησαν, τῆς ἁρμονίας ὑφ’ ἧς συνείχοντο λυθείσης· εὐπαράγωγα γὰρ ταῦτα πάντα, δυνάμενα τῇ καινότητι ¹² τῆς ἐπινοίας τὰ ὦτα δελεάζειν· ὧν ἐκ πολλοῦ τοῦ περιόντος οἱ Μωυσέως γνώριμοι, μεμαθηκότες ἐκ πρώτης ἡλικίας ἐρᾶν ἀληθείας, καταφρονοῦσιν ἀνεξαπάτητοι διατελοῦντες.

De Vita Contemplativa. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Vita Contemplativa (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.)

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On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 63 focus

[63] I pass over in silence the different fabulous fictions, and the stories of persons with two bodies, who having originally been stuck to one another by amatory influences, are subsequently separated like portions which have been brought together and are disjoined again, the harmony having been dissolved by which they were held together; for all these things are very attractive, being able by the novelty of their imagination to allure the ears, but they are despised by the disciples of Moses, who in the abundance of their wisdom have learnt from their earliest infancy to love truth, and also continue to the end of their lives impossible to be deceived.

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De vita contemplativa

1.
1 ἀνδρίαν Α, ἀνδρίαν F
2 ἐναπεργαζόμενος MFG: ἐνεργαζόμενος C (Conyb.), ἀπεργαζόμενος AHP (v)
3 ἐπιτηδεύμασι] γρ. μαθήμασι mg M, μαθήμασι mg P. ἐπιτηδεύμασι καὶ μαθήμασι F
4 ἐρωμένην C, ἐρωμένων Arm (Conyb.)
6 σῶμα καὶ ψυχὴν C Arm (Conyb.): σώματα, ψυχὴν A. σώματα καὶ ψυχὴν ceteri: σῶμά τε καὶ ψυχὴν v
7 πρὸς ταῦτα CG (Conyb.): καὶ πρὸς ταῦτα ceteri (v) ὄνον om. Arm ὀξυδορκοῦντα FGA: ὀξυδερκοῦντα ceteri (v)
8 τἆλλα A τὸ δὲ σῶμα add. Conyb.: τὰ δὲ σώματα Arm, om. codd. (v)
9 ἀποτυγχάνοιτο] ἀποτυγχάνοι HP (Turn.): cf. de spec. leg. III §
44 10 δ’ Α
11 παραφύεται] περιφύεται Α, παραφύεσθαι Arm (Conyb.)
12 γάρ om. FG Arm (Conyb.)
13 ἀγωνίαν Α, ἀγονίαν ex ἀγωνίαν corr. H τεχνάζονται A et ut vid. Arm: τεχναζόντων ceteri (Turn. Conyb.) τῆς γεωργίας] τῶν γεωργῶν Arm
14 σπείροντας Wendl. (sic Arm?) ὑφάλμους] ὑφάλους G mg P; ὑφάμμους coni. Mang. λιθώδεις Α
15 πεφυκέναι] πεφθακέναι A
16 καταβληθέντα G (Conyb.): βληθέντα ceteri (v) φθείρει om. in lac. G, σπείρει 2 σπέρματα φθείρει transp. M σπέρματα] σώματα Α
17 δισωμάτους] δὔσομμάτους M, γρ. δισωμάτους mg M προσφύντες] πρόσφυγες Α ἑνωτικαῖς C Arm (Conyb.): ἐρωτικαῖς ceteri (v)
18 συνεληλυθότων HP (Turn.) 18.
19 συνείχετο FG
19 πάντα om. G

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14 sq. cf. Plat. Legg. VIII 838 e μηδ’ εἰς πέτρας τε καὶ λίθους σπείροντας . . ., ἀπεχομένους δὲ ἀρούρας θηλείας πάσης, ἐν ᾖ μὴ βούλοιο ἂν σοι φύεσθαι τὸ σπαρὲν.

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